Museums in Pretoria - University of Pretoria, Voortrekker Monument, Van Wouw Museum, South African Air Force Museum, Mapungubwe Museum (Paperback)

Chapters: University of Pretoria, Voortrekker Monument, Van Wouw Museum, South African Air Force Museum, Mapungubwe Museum, Transvaal Museum, Melrose House, Kruger House, Pretoria, Freedom Park, African Window, Van Tilburg Collection. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 64. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The University of Pretoria is a public university in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa. Since 1997 the university has produced more research outputs every year than any other institution of higher learning in the country, as measured by the Department of Education's accreditation benchmark. Approximately a quarter of all matriculating students, graduating with university exemption nationally, apply for entry at the university and roughly 30% of all matriculating students, graduating with six or more distinctions, enrol at the university. The university in its more than a century of academic service has delivered more than 200 000 alumni. Through its enduring servitude it has become the largest contributor to graduates in South Africa. During the 2007 academic year, approximately 11 500 students graduated with a degree and diploma, and about 18 000 persons attended the university's comprehensive offering of short courses through its continuing education programme.. With a total of about 38,934 contact students being enrolled in 2008, this makes it one of the country's largest residential (contact) universities.Webometrics ranked the university 2nd overall in Africa for 2009. Photograph taken at the inauguration of the Old Arts building in September 1911The proposal for a university for the capital, first mooted in the Volksraad in 1889, was interrupted by the outbreak of the Anglo Boer War in 1899. In 1902 after the signing of the Peace of Vereenigin...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2344385